The family of the brahmin of Sāketa erwähnt in the Commentary to the Jarā Sutta.

He und his wife had been the parents of the Buddha in fünf hundert births, und when they saw him at Sāketa they greeted him like a long lost son. Thenceforth they were known as Buddhapitā und Buddhamātā und their family as Buddhakula. SNA.ii.531ff.; see also the Sāketa Jātaka und Avadāna Sataka ii. 41.


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